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Open Letter to the Seattle Mariners: What Needs to Realisticly Change

 
This is an open letter to the Seattle Mariners front office with a realistic list of moves that need to be made whether that be trades, call ups, free agent signings etc. The reason I have included the word realistic is because this will not include dreams like Ronny Cedeno to the Cardinals for Albert Pujols. No, all of the moves will be realistic. Now before I start the list of moves that need to be made by the Seattle Mariners in order for them to make the playoffs, the Mariners are going to be buyers and sellers. Let’s get started.   1) Call up C Jeff Clement, C Adam Moore and OF Michael Saunders Examination : Calling up Clement, Moore and Saunders gives two things to the Mariners that they continue to need. One is hitting, the Mariners really only have Russell Branyan, Ichiro, Jose Lopez as their main hitters and production in the lineup. Clement is hitting .281 in class AAA Tacoma, along with 45 RBI's, 78 hits, 22 doubles, 52 runs, 10 HR, and 136 total bases ... (link)

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